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Look! Film Club – War Pony

Gina Gammell and Riley Keough’s debut follows the interlocking stories of two Lakota boys growing up on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Bill (Jojo Bapteise Whiting), at twenty-three, just wants to make something of himself and is determined to hustle his way to a better life through odd jobs and get-rich-quick schemes. Twelve-year-old Matho (LaDainian Crazy …

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Look! Film Club – Shabu

Fourteen-year-old Sharonio “Shabu” Abisoina lives in a housing project in the south of Rotterdam. He is a happy-go-lucky, aspiring rapper who, according to himself, is on the brink of stardom. He intends to spend his summer making music and playing video games, but things don’t go to plan when he crashes his grandmother’s car during …

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Look! Film Club – Past Lives

Nora and Hae Sung, classmates at a primary school in Seoul, have their deep friendship ended abruptly when Nora’s family emigrates to Canada. Two decades later, they meet in New York and over one week address notions of chance and circumstance and the choices people make that create a life.  Past Lives is an authentically …

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Look! Film Club – Scrapper

Director: Charlotte Regan Cast: Harris Dickinson, Lola Campbell, Alin Uzun 12-year-old Georgie is determined to fend for herself following the death of her mother Vicky. She lies to teachers and social workers in a bid to keep under the radar. That precarious balance is upset when her estranged dad Jason suddenly arrives back from Ibiza …

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Look! Film Club – Passages

Director: Ira Sachs Starring: Franz Rogowski, Ben Whishaw, Adèle Exarchopoulos Film director Tomas lives in Paris with his husband Martin. While working on a new film, Tomas begins a passionate affair with schoolteacher Agathe. When Tomas reveals the affair to Martin, tensions within the marriage immediately worsen. But Tomas is determined to keep both the …

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Look! Film Club – Name Me Lawand

Director: Edward Lovelace Edward Lovelace’s documentary follows several years in the life of Lawand, a young Kurdish boy living in England after he and his family fled Iraq. Deaf since birth, Lawand cannot easily communicate with others. At the Royal School for the Deaf in Derby, however, Lawand learns sign language and begins to thrive …

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